Waterloo Daily Courier (Newspaper) - May 21, 1942, Waterloo, Iowa Remember Pearl Buy War Savings Bonds and Stamps ESTABLISHED 1854 FIRST NEWS The WeatKer Little change Complete for and on X WATERLOO IOWA THURSDAY MAY 21 1942 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS RUSSIANS SMASH NAZ FORTS Take Taxes m Adds Style to Joining Army Maurice 3 precision watch crystal grinder in civilian reported for induction in the U- S army at Providence R I In his tuxedo with the comment This is the biggest day in my life After all if the army me I ought to report in style A Dqy in Family Is Bothered Bit by Bombs But Sleeps Pretty Well at Night By JOSEPH MUNROE Valletta thousand air raids in one month an average of 166 every 24 Lours 75 per cent of this city's homes destroyed or the statistical story of this most bombed spot on earth The human story Mrs gets up at 6 a husband is a ing she has six children All is peace and quiet for 20 minutes Then the siren sounds Say she says casually to her eldest son Go up and spot The youth stUl rubbing sleep from climbs onto the roof All over the neighborhood family spotters are on the roofs No use being disturbed by less they're close having washed his face and shaved comes breakfast The three younger children are still asleep says he slept well and Mrs said had a good night too She takes the steaming coffee pot from the stove has it poised to pour when a shout comes from the lad on the roof They're coming close The awaken the three sleeping children Calmly even casually all eight of them repair to the nearest shelter an ancient well Within seconds bombs arc ping all around Forty minutes later the planes have driven off and the ily returns to breakfast Mrs is slightly annoyed because she must warm the coffee goes off to work and Mrs starts scrubbing and dressing the three young ones She is just about thru with them 50 minutes after the first an- other raid starts and she and the children go off to the shelter again When that one is over she takes her basket and goes off shopping In the midst of it the sirens sound again and she and all sons in the streets go casually to public shelters That raid didn't amount to much and there isn't another until 2 p m which permits the family to lunch in unaccustomed quiet Mrs even gets the luncheon dishes washed There isn't another raid for most half an hour At p m in the midst of the siesta the planes come over again That is truly annoying the Mal- teze prize the siesta and it seems hardly sporting of the axis to dis- turb it The tea time raids come every day and it would seem nn all but intolerable break in routine if the axis missed one En route to the shelter for that one Mrs and her dren learn from a neighbor that 150 axis planes are approaching That means the she said as all Maltese arc military strategists But it was Valletta it- self that got their load The next raid was early evening on page 2 column 5 Normandie to Be Salvaged Knox Tells President Washington D tary of Navy Frank Knox reported Thursday to President Roosevelt that the navy would be able to salvage the former luxury liner Normandie which burned and capsized New York pier The Normandie was taken over by the navy renamed the yette and was in process of con- version for use as a transport when it burned Knox went to the While House with Comdr William A Sullivan who has been investigating the salvage possibilities SAVE A LIFE IN Traffic Toll in City of Waterloo This Year and Last Since Same Jan 1 Date Number of accidents 190 178 Number injured 52 64 Number killed 1 5 News Feature Index Page Believe It or 8 Brady's Health Talk 4 Cedar Falls News 14 City in Brief 6 Classified Ads Comics Editorial 4 Markets in News 4 Northeast Iowa Events 15 Parsons Movie Talk 19 Private Lives 4 Radio Programs ig Serial Story 8 Society e Theatre Entertainment 19 Uncle Ray's Corner 8 Uncle 8 War Activities Directory 4 on Broadway 23 POLICY DOM Bedford Tells House of Lords England Too Could Be Ruthless GOV'T LEADER PLEDGES NO NEGOTIATED PEACE Duke of Bedford who tried to institute peace negotiations with many two years ago defended Adolf Hitler's nazi regime be- fore the of lords day chirin g a debate on postwar policy and the proposed treatment of the German people after the war The of Bedford made his statements in approval of Hitler while de- fending a justice for the man people speech made by Herbert Morrison minister for home security at Blackpool May 5 It was Upon Morrison's sial speech that the debate tered Hitler has seen the children of starving and I suggest that you had shared his ence you would at least begin to understand why he is ruthless when protecting his country from a tition of that starvation by reason of the the duke said Don't forget that when our tional safety or victory is at stake we are perfectly prepared to kill the French Blames Kuss for First War The duke asserted had the lic been told the had it been consulted it would never have consented to the Polish alliance or the Polish war He blamed Russia for the out- break of the first world war in 1914 The tall thin-faced duke has been identified with peace efforts ever since Britain's entry into the war In February 1940 he handed over to the foreign office what he said were nazi peace proposals which he obtained from the German tion in Dublin A few days later however the German minister to Eire Eduard Hempil repudiated the proposals and said that the the Marquis of ly discussed the matter with a nazi legation secretary In October 1941 the duke a pamphlet What a calling for peace between Britain and Germany and defending Hitler against accusations that the nazi regime is fighting for world ination A few days after the pamphlet the Russell Square statue of Francis fifth Duke of Bedford was daubed with yellow paint and tered with signs deriding the ent duke as a Quisling No Peace with Hitler During Thursday's debate He member Lord Nathan said that Britain's labor party will refuse to negotiate any post-war settlement with a government headed by ler Viscount Cranborne government spokesman gave a pledge that the government never will make a peace with re- iteration of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's stand A negotiated peace with the nazis he an unpardonable betrayal of our own country and the world in he said Lord Nathan spoke in the same vein We will refuse to negotiate with the Hitler government and will in- sist upon the decisive destruction of the power of German he declared The labor party is determined upon a total complete and takable victory for which there can be no going back A just peace requires that the German people should be made to feel they had outlawed themselves from the comity of other nations but upon assurance of good be- they might be readmitted FABER RE-ELECTED State College Pa D C Iowa State college was re- elected vice-president of the al University association at its annual conference here Wednesday Drops Iowa Property Tax Levy DCS Gov George A Wilson Thursday wiped off the books the one- mill Iowa state property tax levy The governor's action means there will be no taxes collected against real estate in 1943 for the benefit of the state general fund The state levy this year is ex- to produce For a property owner living in a district where the total levy is 25 mills the elimination of the state levy means a tax reduction next year of 4 per cent ing the other levies remain un- changed Similarly in a district the reduction will run 2 per cent The estimated unobligated nue in the treasury as of June 30 1942 will be sufficient to justify this the governor said He indicated that the unobligated treasury balance will be 000 in round figures as of that date This balance he explained does not include state funds set aside for such major projects as the state of- fice building and the library for the University of Iowa at Iowa City With the increased taxes that are necessary to win the he continued I feel that the state should do all within its power to relieve the burden on the taxpayer so that he can more easily make his contribution to the national government that we may have a speedy and complete victory The year 1943 will be the first since 1934 in which no state levy was assessed In 1934 former Governor Herring eliminated the levy and used sales and income tax receipts to plug the gap There was no homestead refund system then however Established in Gulf of Mexico Washington D dent Roosevelt by executive order Thursday a sea range area in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico closing the area to all but specifically accredited shipping The restricted area embraces waters adjacent to Padri Island Brazos Island and the coast of Texas south thereof and extending ing out into the gulf for 25 miles The waters of Laguna Mad re also are included in part Shipping of all descriptions may navigate in these waters only by permission of the secretary of war or an authorized officer and sels receiving such permission enter the waters at their own risk 5 Training Planes Reported Missing Montgomery BT 13 training planes which left er field near Montgomery day night on a cross country ing flight were reported missing Thursday by officers at Maxwell field Officers said the planes were be- to be in the area between Montgomery Crestview Fla and Mobile Ala An appeal was broadcast asking any person having information con- the missing ships to contact the commanding officer at Gunter or Maxwell fields Montgomery HI MEET III Cars Are Someone will buy your car if you run a Classified For Sale ad Several calls were received for these cars and both were sold for Excellent 1038 dor 120 Ph 4283 33 FORD Tires Clean good condition 43714 Sullivan COURIER CLASSIFIED GIRLS Phone 7711 Committee Goes from Raised Range at Surtaxes to How to Get It PERSONS EARNING A WEEK TAKEN INTO FOLD Washington D The house ways and means committee sought Thursday to work out a system of ment payments of income taxes to soften the blow of increased rates in the come brackets Hardly had the com- its new individual tax gram by raising the range of taxes from per cent to per cent than it turned to Secretary Morgenthau's proposal to collect up to 10 per cent of taxable income from salaries and wages That plan would authorize the treasury department perhaps in September to make regular de- from paychecks which would be used as a credit against the tax due next March 15 The committee's tax proposals would add an estimated to the now collected with heavy emphasis on incomes below The program would be based on exemptions for single persons and Cor husbands and wives a normal tax of 6 per cent instead of 4 and minimum surtax rates starting at double the present level of 6 per cent on the first of net income Get Class The committee rejecting a ury suggestion decided to retain the present 10 per cent earned income credit up to in computing normal taxes only and also kept the present exemption for dents Thus the committee would bring into the income tax fold for the first time single persons earning as little as a week would increase the average a year tax from about to about and would increase he tax of a man from about to There was no indication of just how many people would be added to the who now pay in- come taxes by the committee's ex- Committee members said there had been no serious discussion of President Roosevelt's recent tion that individual incomes be held to a year after ment of taxes altho the new rates would mean rhat a man would have to earn more than a year be- fore he would have that amount left Would Pick Up 3 Billion As in the case of the treasury's recommendations for in new corporation taxes the committee approved only members made a able cut in Secretary Morgenthau's revised request for in additional revenue from individuals Actually however considering treasury estimates on the yield from a requirement that married couples file joint re- turns the government would pick up more than from in- Treasury tax experts have ex- in this manner the called salary withhold tax as a means of collecting income taxes on a go Take a man who earns a month and who has a wife and one child He would have dependent ex- of To that would be added 10 per cent of as an average for other reductions or a total of SI 760 This would mean exemptions of a month His estimated net taxable income would then be a month A maximum 10 per cent collection would be made on that a month Those monthly payments would be credited as part payment of taxes when individual returns arc filed on March 15 Elks Boost Sunshine Fund With Offer of 50 Cents for Each Anyone Else Gives Barkley Opposes General Probe of Smear Campaign Washington D for a general investigation of charges that attempts were being made to smear some senators who opposed intervention in the war prior to Pearl Harbor met with op- position Thursday Democratic Leader Barkley Barkley said he did not favor launching any inquiry of this proposed by Senators Nye Wheeler and Clark The demands were made after Barkley told the senate Wednesday that a justice department gation had exonerated Senator Walsh of charges that Walsh could be accused of ing with enemy aliens in a lyn house of charges which Barkley said were published in the New York Post John Barrymore Taken to Hospital With Pneumonia Hollywood John Barrymore is very sick with pneumonia his physician disclosed Thursday The movie stage and radio star in poor health for several years was removed to Hollywood terian hospital Tuesday night Dr Hugo Kersten his physician He is suffering from an ab- dominal condition resulting from liver and kidney ailments now complicated by hypostatic monia Garcia Corinn Dutch Masters ioc Harvester Emerson San Felloe Mexico Studies Declaration of War Upon Axis Mexico City INS President Manuel Avila Camacho Thursday summoned the Mexican cabinet for a special meeting to consider a declaration of war against the axis Camacho's call to the cabinet lowed lengthy conferences with Dr Francisco CasUllo Najera Mexico's ambassador to the United Slates and Foreign Minister Ezequiel The foreign minister brought with him a draft of a formal declaration of war against Germany Italy and Japan which had been drawn up by leaders of the Mexican senate after the tanker Del Llano was sunk by an axis submarine Doolittle Predicts More Surprises for Japs and Germans Washington D more surprises for Japan and many were promised Thursday by Brig Gen James H Doolittle who led the American bombing raid on Japan April 18 In a radio speech describing the attack Doolittle said that the est result of the raid is the rial and psychological damage we inflicted on the adding that in neither respect is the enemy likely to recover soon I bring you this message from faith in can fighting men has never been so strong We have in our training centers on our production lines the pattern from which will be built many more surprises for Japan and Germany It is the ultimate pat- tern for our own victory Martin to Keynote G O P Convention DCS Joseph W Martin chairman of the Republican national committee will be the keynote speaker at the Iowa G O P convention in DCS July 17 H E Hill Oxford party secretary announced day GHORMLEY TAKES OVER IN NEW ZEALAND Wellington N Admiral L Ghormley arrived Thursday with his staff to take over command of United Nations quarters in New Zealand Admiral Ghormley began ate consultations with New Zealand service chiefs DROWNS IN WATER TANK Claire inger 17 months old son of Mr and Mrs Anthony Mailinger was drowned Wednesday in a water lank on his parents farm near here Lodge Says Children's Health Project Is Important THE FUND TODAY Previously reported 5357.00 Waterloo police auxiliary 5.00 Jubilee circle of King's 15.00 A C Wilcox 2.00 Waterloo Daily Courier A friend la 6.00 Waterloo lodge 290 Elks 51.50 Total to date To encourage enlarged giving to the Waterloo Daily Courier Sunshine Panel Waterloo lodge 290 B P 0 Elks from Thursday on will give 50 cents for each dollar donated to the fund it was announced by Leo M Huntington exalted ruler It was decided by lodge members at a meeting in the Elks club Wednesday evening that the lodge will give half as much as each con- from Thursday on ington said The Courier Sunshine Fund which provides vacations on the farm for underprivileged dren is one of the most tant projects being carried on Huntington declared Because of the press of so many war drives this year there has been an understandable neglect of the Sunshine Fund But Waterloo lodge Elks believes that this fund which makes so many deserving children ier and happier thru a month's stay at a farm home must be built up so that its work can continue As a result of the Elks lodge action and the additional con- received the Sunshine Fund Thursday was boosted to enough to send 34 dren on vacations Contributions received Thursday totaled and the Elks gift was an additional It costs to send one child Vacations will 1 Donations may be brought or sent to the Courier Reports U S Troops Now at Gibraltar New and dominated radios asserted day that United States troops had arrived at Gibraltar altho they differed somewhat on details There was no confirmation of these reports all of which were presented as emanating from Spain near Gibraltar Vichy said one transport ing troops followed an craft carrier and two cruisers into Gibraltar roadstead Wednesday night The German DNB agency said that there were soldiers escorted by three British ers that they arrived Wednesday afternoon and had not debarked so that it was not known whether they would stay MEAT PLANT WORKERS BEING FINGERPRINTED Ottumwa than 000 employes of the John Morrell Co Meat Packing plant were here Wednesday on in- from Washington A similar program was carried out at the company's other plants in peka Kan and Sioux Falls S D Strangled Mrs Virginia Stuver 23 was found strangled to death in the rooms of her husband tn cago Detective Louis said the husband Allen D er 23 admitted he strangled her after she told him she had been unfaithful to him Red Army Troops Fighting in Open Fields Inside Nazi Defenses REPORT A CITY CAPTURED BEHIND GERMAN LINES Moscow UP The Red army reported Thursday that its troops are driving thru fended villages and across open fields around Kharkov after smashing the main German for- and that Russian guerillas have captured a large city deep behind the nazi lines The official army organ Red Star said that Marshal Semyon forces were ically isolated nazi pillboxes and strong points of the inner ring after overwhelming the main enemy defenses Pravda communist party organ said that the large city with a population of thousands and rounding rich farming territory had been recaptured after four months of German occupation by an army of guerillas The city identified only by the anonymous title of Partisans was said to be in occupied Russia and there was no indication whether it was in the Kharkov or some other region of the front Advance 13 Miles The Tass agency reported that a new Russian offensive on the Kare- lian isthmus front north of grad against forces had driven forward 13 miles ed casualties and brought the enemy's main line of fortifications under artillery fire The enemy line was said to be gravely threatened by the prise soviet advance across swamps and thru forests between Lake Ladoga and the Baltic Timoshenko's offensive was re- ported in front line dispatches to be pounding steadily forward upon and around Kharkov a vital trial city and hub of six railroads and it was indicated that the reported Russian advance of about 40 miles had been extended considerably during the past 24 hours At numerous points however the Germans admittedly still were re- sisting savagely hurling reserves of men and tanks into the fire of Russian guns in a desperate attempt to stem the Red army's sweep Describe Slaughter Various accounts reaching cow from the Kharkov front de- scribed a slaughter of German troops Russian artillery and antitank guns were described as mowing down German tanks that charged groups of 15 and 20 in suicidal saults designed to divert the sian fire The nazi tanks attempting panzer pincer attacks on the center of the Russian positions sought to draw off the soviet fire and enable flanking attacks but failed in their purpose the Red Star said The Red Star reported that at many points around the city the Russians have broken the backbone of nazis big tank assaults altho a big tank battle said to be un- derway in one sector with the issue still undecided The Germans large tank losses were said by the Red Star to have forced the enemy high command to turn to the use of infantry ported by 10 or 15 tanks and rons of planes in its unsuccessful counterattacks Battle in Open Fields In most sectors the Germans were attacking with units ranging from one battalion to a regiment of in- fantry made up largely of shock troops and fresh reserves including youths of 18 and ID Alter overcoming he main de- fenses of Kharkov it was reported the Russian forces were battling in open fields and unfortified villager outside Kharkov overpowering nazi strong points in knifing and cling attacks The Hed Star reported that fresh German reserves were at- tempting counterattacks at various points along the curving front around Kharkov on the tenth day of offensive German shock troops selves Into the path of Russian tanks and tank clashed with tank as the enemy tacked with almost ferocity m their attempt to
